Basic business statistics : concepts and applications

Relating the concepts and applications of statistics to the functional areas of business - accounting, marketing, management, economics and finance - the text makes statistics very relevant for business students. Judith Watson, University of NSW. Nicola Jayne, Southern Cross University. Lindsay Turn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berenson, Mark L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Pearson Education Australia , c2009
Edition:10th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and data collection
  • 2. Presenting data in tables and charts
  • 3. Numerical descriptive measures
  • 4. Basic probability
  • 5. Some important discrete probability distributions
  • 6. The normal distribution and other continuous distributions
  • 7. Sampling distributions
  • 8. Confidence interval estimation
  • 9. Fundamentals of hypothesis testing: one-sample tests
  • 10. Two-sample tests and analysis of variance
  • 11. Chi-square tests and two-sample parametric proportion tests
  • 12. Sample linear regression
  • 13. Introduction to multiples regression
  • 14. Time-series forecasting and index numbers